Payment Technologies

What happens when the backbone of financial transactions becomes a bottleneck in an era craving speed and seamless experiences? Across the globe, banks and financial institutions grapple with outdated systems that stifle progress, even as customer demands for instant payments and cutting-edge

Cross-border payments hit a wall when local instant rails stop at the border, so the decision to interlink TIPS with UPI reframed the problem from isolated upgrades to shared infrastructure. Payment leaders praised the move as overdue, noting that domestic success meant little if small firms still

November’s fintech launches told a striking story of incumbents and challengers leaving silos behind and leaning on specialist partners to sprint into new categories without sacrificing regulatory comfort or customer trust, and the throughline was unmistakable: platform rails and co-built products

When Singapore’s Monetary Authority and Germany’s Deutsche Bundesbank align on tokenized settlement, cross-border finance gains its first credible fast lane. The agreement arrived with stage lights and substance at the Singapore FinTech Festival, where a Memorandum of Understanding set a joint

In an industry long defined by gated networks and batch settlements, a major U.S. bank moving a dollar-pegged token across a public chain signaled a pivot from proof-of-concept talk to live-fire testing under real compliance controls, and the stakes stretched far beyond a single pilot. The trial

Even the most cautious observers have noticed that financial services are increasingly appearing inside everyday digital journeys across African markets, showing up not as standalone apps but as context-aware tools embedded in telco wallets, retail networks, and platform workflows from delivery to